‘A White Heron’ by Sarah Orne Jewett Thesis Statement: Sylvia’s nighttime quest is really a journey into herself. In Sara Orne Jewett’s ‘A White Heron’, we are introduced to a shy, withdrawn and lonely young girl, Sylvia. When Sylvia has a unlikely encounter with a handsome young hunter, shy finds herself torn between the longing for his affection, material treasures and her own devotion to the wilderness and the animals that have taken her in. It is not until Sylvia embarks on a dangerous midnight quest that she fully understands and embraces who she is. From the very first scene in this story, we get a revealing insight into Sylvia’s character. She is a young child, probably nine years old. She has been living on her grandmother’s farm in New England for the past year. We learn early in the story that Sylvia seems to have a natural connecti....

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